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Made a walking stick for a mate up the road out of a plum branch of a tree we trimmed 10 years ago it is not heavy but feels strong.
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Assuming you blasted it what did you go with water , dry vapour or bead etc.
I have some of these to clean up and only got a normal grit sand blasting cabinet at the moment.
This one was vapour blasted.
Very good came up nicely but a right mess and soaking wet.
Would try a dry soda next time instead first.
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Wired up the 3kw power supply. I did intend to make up brass contacts and a housing to make a removable connector, but I took the quick option of soldering.
Next job to make up a rear housing to fix the connectors, as the pcb traces wont last 5 minutes if they get strained.
Blue and white wires are for CAN, Ive got an esp32 and transceiver chip in the post, which will let me set voltage and current limit, then read off internally measured voltage/current/power.
Next job to make up a rear housing to fix the connectors, as the pcb traces wont last 5 minutes if they get strained.
Blue and white wires are for CAN, Ive got an esp32 and transceiver chip in the post, which will let me set voltage and current limit, then read off internally measured voltage/current/power.
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The wife wanted a stand for a tuff tray our daughter to do messy play on so popped down to the local scrappy for some tube and found some old van racking, much cutting, grinding, bad TIG welding, milling, painting and 3D printing later we have a fully adjustable stand. Annoyingly as the box had its holes punched and I wanted a box to slide inside this I had to mill the side off the smaller box.
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Thought I'd make my own visualiser (a downward pointing camera that would then project to the classroom screen, use them all the time at school) using my cheap £50 GoPro knock-off so I can record some lessons over the forthcoming period; I won't be teaching 'live' as the risk assessments and red tape are overwhelmingly disuasive and prohibitive.
The height and angles can be adjusted and there's some lead shot I found in the base so very stable. Made it out of aluminium so I broke out the Sherman 206P TIG welder over the weekend for some shameful welding - its been a while since I've done any alloy! The camera does create fisheye at such a close distance...
The height and angles can be adjusted and there's some lead shot I found in the base so very stable. Made it out of aluminium so I broke out the Sherman 206P TIG welder over the weekend for some shameful welding - its been a while since I've done any alloy! The camera does create fisheye at such a close distance...
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Nice rig you have made for the camera.
Looking at the distortion on screen, is it a 4k camera if so using it at 1080 will crop to a central part of the image and cut out some of the barrel distortion at the edge of the picture. You will have to move the camera a little higher but it might look better.
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, and clever idea using those Rice Krispies as a play medium - much easier to sweep up....
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On my cheep GoPro alike Akasso it is a recording setting on camera, you can see the crop as it is applied and the distortion goes but so does the ultra wide angle view.
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Have you got access to Adobe CC? I'm pretty sure you can do lens corrections in After Effects. Davinci Resolve might do it too but I'm not sure if that's only in the paid version.
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My Apeman camera has a webcam mode so I use it as a webcam for Teams meetings anyway, and was planning on having it in the same mode for recording... hadn't thought of using it as a normal camera so that's something else to investigate! I can get VLC (or just the Windows 10 camera app) to record the stream coming direct from it so that makes things dead easy but will leave the fisheye... taking it out of webcam mode may indeed make things more flexible.
Don't have Adobe but I've just registered for Davinci Resolve and will give it a go, if the free version works I'll buy you a beer... sometime!
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Resolve is excellent, steeper learning curve than iMovie or Movie Maker but still easy enough to pick up and far more powerful than you're ever likely to use. I was actually teaching one of my housemates to use it the other week, putting together one of those birthday videos everyone's doing these days.
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It is very capable but asking for distortion corrections will give a very long render time.Resolve is excellent, steeper learning curve than iMovie or Movie Maker but still easy enough to pick up and far more powerful than you're ever likely to use. I was actually teaching one of my housemates to use it the other week, putting together one of those birthday videos everyone's doing these days.
FWIW The only thing that I have found missing in the free version is single frame capture but it can be worked around by cutting a fraction of a second of video and converting the output to jpg.
No doubt there will be other things missing but nothing that I have needed yet, the conversion of aspect ratio is great for the 'opps I held the camera the wrong way up' moments
